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The Portland Trail Blazers fired new play-by-play voice Braiden Bell mere hours after hiring him Thursday, the team announced. Bell was slated to replace longtime broadcaster Kevin Calabro in the role, but after hiring him, the Blazers discovered racist and misogynistic posts on his existing social media account. Bell is now 29 years old, and the posts came when Bell was a teenager in 2012 and 2013.

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Posted by RohanGonzales

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Posted on 10/2/26 at 12:46 am to LSUneaux

great vetting dumbasses

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Posted by cascadia

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Posted on 10/2/26 at 12:52 am to LSUneaux

2012 and 2013 tweets causing a firing smh. Maybe Portland should lose the team

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Posted by YStar

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Posted on 10/2/26 at 12:58 am to cascadia

Maybe stop thinking like a woman and realize accountability isn't something you just run from or pass off to the closest man?

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Posted by cascadia

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Posted on 10/2/26 at 1:03 am to YStar

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Maybe stop thinking like a woman and realize accountability isn't something you just run from or pass off to the closest man?

He tweeted some lukewarm tweets that only in Portland would it get you in trouble 15 years ago, not kill his three children

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Posted by Lawyered

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Posted on 10/2/26 at 4:49 am to LSUneaux

Wonder if they’ll do any digging on players and tweets or other social media posts using the n word variant

Since there is zero tolerance. Right? Everyone’s equal then with this type of policy

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Posted by NIH

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Posted on 10/2/26 at 6:24 am to YStar

Agreed. We don’t need bigots in sports. Imagine being a Trailblazers player and you find out this announcer said something about Asian folk when he was 15. Makes me shudder.

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